[OSList] OST training September 6-8 in Europe (X-posted GC/GCD/OS-lists)

Tue Jul 18 06:46:21 PDT 2017

Dear Thomas, Anna Caroline, and Doris,
People choosing to go to your workshop whether they are new to working with
OST or are well seasoned in their own facilitation/experience with OST will
experience great learning, and the insights that are important to them at
this time. In this module of the Genuine Contact program, the focus is on
'working' with OST within a company, community, team, etc to get the most
short and long term benefit from the incredible quality and quantity that
always emerges in an OST meeting. The module is not so much about how to
facilitate an OST meeting, although that is covered too. It is understood
that to facilitate an OST, one can read 'the book' and then get on with it.
This is so much more!

I want to say a little about how this module came into being. I had someone
shadow me once in a multi day OST meeting, with the belief she would be
helping me. Monika is a very bright woman, an educator and administrator,
and filled with lots of questions. As we worked with the OST, she asked so
many questions from the beginning that I handed her some pads of post it
notes and asked her to write each question down on a separate note and we
would get to them when we could. The stack of questions was so big that I
was overwhelmed. I nonchalantly assumed the answers would be easy. I
discovered, as she probed, that they were not. And for the first time I
understood the complexity of what was needed in an organization such as
hers in making the most of the OST meeting...she really wanted to. Those
questions formed the basis of the workbook we use for Working with OST.

As early as 1992 I started experimenting with how to transform an
organization so that it could have the same benefits that were gleaned in
an OST meeting, on a daily basis. At first I called this the Conscious Open
Space Organization, and later shifted the name to Genuine Contact
Organization because what people experience in the organization on which
the many benefits hinge...is genuine contact with each other, with the
collective, and most importantly with themselves.

We do offer 'self management/self organizing' as one of many options of
what is going on, yet we do not restrict the options to just this one. My
personal favorite of the options, one that goes along with my deeply held
belief of 'spirit is all that is' is that OST opens a window so we develop
greater awareness of Spirit at work.

Blessings and hugs,
Birgitt

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:08 AM Thomas Herrmann via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Oh myy, sorry for keeping you awake Michael :). Thanks for your
> reflections. I think we agree on most re OST but for sure there is a lot to
> talk about.
>
> Now I'll go to Pilarne -a great outdoor art excibition. http://pilane.org/
> -some people on this list know the place from the Genuine Contact Summer
> Academy some years back. That's open space, for sure!
> Hugs
> Thomas
>
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 18 juli 2017 kl. 00:38 skrev Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>:
>
> I am not at all sure what "we are".
>
> I wonder whether I can be sure what my focus as facilitator in the OST
> context is.
> So far, I felt my focus was to assist the sponsor in finding out whether
> an OST event is in order for whatever it is that he/she wants to do. The
> straightforward approach was to take a look with him whether the 5 or so
> prerequisites for an OST event are in place.
> When that is the case and the event is decide on, the sponsor opens the
> space for the event to take place. I have never heard a sponsor talk about
> "emergence". Sponsors always wanted that some headway is made in a wicked
> situation for which nobody had a solution so far.
> Considering that the force of selforganization is always active but
> sometimes pretty cramped (when various kinds of controls are exerted) it
> appears to me to be less a question of "setting the stage for
> selforganization" but being aware that it has its stage, albeit very small
> at times, and that it can do better by having a bit more time and space to
> unfold on its stage.
> Focusing selforganization seems to me more in the direction of controlling
> selforganization and that is probably impossible. Even less possible seem
> to me any attempts to have bumblebees feel more empowered to do what I
> might think they ought to do. Its just as futile as working on empowering
> other human beings, especially facing the fact what a hard time I have to
> empower myself.
>
> Yes, I also see/feel/notice/ etc. lots of unexpected and thrilling stuff
> while meandering through an OST event picking up coffee cups or taking a
> nap, oblivious to what direction things go and happily appreciating seeing
> folks follow their passions in structures and processes they themselves
> create in a fashion that no number of facilitators could.
>
> Sleepless in Berlin and finding it great to be tickled into this dialog.
>
> cheers
> mmp
>
>
>
> Am 17.07.2017 um 23:27 schrieb Thomas Herrmann via OSList:
>
> Exactly!
>
> We are but an instrument assisting the sponsor to open space for emergence.
>
> We set the stage for selforganization to happen with a bit more directed
> focus and bumblebees feel more empowered to flap their wings, stirring
> energy, creating disturbances and they also contribute with their wisdom.
>
> Crosspollination happens while I pick coffee cups. And I get paid for it!
>
> Wohooo
>
> Thomas
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 17 juli 2017 kl. 22:36 skrev Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>:
>
>
> Learn to Open Space for Cross Pollination in Groups?
>
>
> And here I keep thinking that
>
>
> 1) facilitators dont open space, sponsors do
>
> 2) facilitators introduce OST, humbly
>
> 3) if things go as they seem to always go, space and time expand a bit for
> the force of selforganisation to do its stuff.
>
>
> And, my experience, bumble bees do their pollination stuff between groups
> as they flit around from group to group often strategically as is the habit
> of bumble bees, there is nothing random about them... and thats a
> predictable side effect of selforganisation.
>
>
> Why should a facilitator get involved to bother about cross pollination
> and how could she be if completely occupied with doing nothing to get out
> of the way of the good old force, bless her.
>
>
> Greetings from Berlin
>
> mmp
>
>
>
>
>
> Am 17.07.2017 um 14:47 schrieb Thomas Herrmann via OSList:
>
> *Dear friends in Open Space*
>
> Doris Gottlieb, Anna Caroline Türk and myself welcome anyone interested to
> learn about working with Open Space Technology to join us in September 6-8.
> Easily accessible close to Amsterdam. Join us and please share it on!
>
> More info: https://www.dorisgottlieb.com/ost-092017
>
> Thanks and those of you in Europe – have a nice summer!
>
> Let’s go! Thomas Herrmann
>
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